"I don't know if it is the same but it certainly feels that way," she said.

"But I know that having police on bottle-Os is a really important step that needs to be put back into place, because this was not the sort of thing happening outside our supermarkets when police were out the front."

Twenty police auxiliaries have been sworn in as liquor inspectors earlier this month to begin training in order to take the place of sworn officers who have been stationed outside bottle shops.

The practice aims to stop the supply of alcohol to problem drinkers across the NT's regional centres.

Ms Price also wants police to have more powers as well as more education and rehabilitation offered to those suffering from alcohol addiction.